PART III RIGHTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR TENANTS

General

C182F10Interpretation of sections 14, 19 and 20

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  • “family” and any reference to membership thereof shall be construed in accordance with section 83;

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  • “landlord” means a person who lets a house to a tenant for human habitation, and includes his successors in title;

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  • “tenancy” means any agreement under which a house is made available for occupation for human habitation, and “leases”, “let” and “lets” shall be construed accordingly;

  • “tenant” means a person who leases a house from a landlord and who derives his right therein directly from the landlord, and in the case of joint tenancies means all the tenants.

C383C2Members of a person’s family.

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A person is a member of another’s family for the purposes of this Act if—

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he is the spouse F6or civil partner of that person or he and that person live together as husband and wife F3or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex; or

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he is that person’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.

2

For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—

a

a relationship by marriage F7or by virtue of civil partnership shall be treated as a relationship by blood;

b

a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood;

c

the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child; and

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a person brought up or treated by another person as if the person were the child of the other person shall be treated as that person’s child;

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a child shall be treated as such whether or not his parents are married.

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Except in subsection (1)(a), references in this Act to a person’s spouse include references to F8that person’s civil partner or to another person living together with that person as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex.

F1384 Service of notices.

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F1484A Application of right to buy to cases where landlord is lessee.

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